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Thought Gang Thought Gang Thought Gang Thought Gang traCk liSting: 1 Stalin Revisited (2:02) 2 Logic and Common Sense (3:35) 3 One Dog Bark (3:07) 4 Woodcutters From Fiery Ships (4:35) 5 A Real Indication (5:35) 6 Jack Paints It Red (3:41) 7 A Meaningless Conversation (3:14) 8 Frank 2000 Prelude (1:54) 9 Multi-Tempo Wind Boogie (4:10) 10 The Black Dog Runs at Night (1:46) 11 Frank 2000 (16:41) 12 Summer Night Noise (9:03) key information / Selling pointS: Hometown / Key Markets: • Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Chicago Selling Points: •“Steel” color vinyl limited to 1000 units • Legendary early ’90s experimental jazz recordings by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti By the time Twin Peaks’ second season had aired and Fire Walk With Me had just • Music has appeared in pieces in Lynch’s film and TV begun principle production, Thought Gang had been born. The esoteric jazz work but never seen the light of day as a proper release side-project of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti evolved from the seeds of Twin Peaks’ trademark slow cool jazz and blossomed into more experimen- Related Catalog: tal pastures: horizonless vistas of acid-soaked free-jazz, laced with spoken word • SBR-109 David Lynch The Big Dream CD/LP narratives and sprawling noisescapes. Fire Walk With Me’s soundtrack would ulti- • SBR-110 David Lynch Bad the John Boy 12" mately showcase two preliminary tracks (“A Real Indication” and “The Black Dog • SBR-3018 David Lynch and Marek Zebrowski Polish Runs at Night”) from a full-length album that wouldn’t see release for two-and-a- Night Music LP half decades. Beginning in May 1992 and continuing throughout 1993, the bulk of the remaining material for the album was recorded in pieces, and dove-tailed RiYL: David Lynch, Angelo Badalamenti, free jazz into a string of contracted sessions for other Lynch-Badalamenti projects. Catalog #: Sbr-214 CD In the years following, fragments and working versions of Thought Gang genre: Experimental/Jazz material would make appearances in everything from a Lynch-helmed Adidas releaSe Date: 11-2-2018 commercial to scenes in Hotel Room, Mulholland Dr., Inland Empire, deleted available formatS: CD, 2xlp, 2xlp-C1 scenes from Fire Walk With Me, and most expansively utilized in Showtime’s UpC-CD: 843563105443 third season of Twin Peaks. “Frank 2000” and “Summer Night Noise,” as well as UpC-lp: 843563105436 lp an alternate instrumental mix of “Logic and Common Sense,” would score scenes UpC-lp-C1: 843563105450 from season three and aid in defining the show’s distinctly experimental, noise- export reStriCtionS: none tilted soundtrack. vinyl iS not retUrnable box lot: CD 30 / lp 18 “It’s sort of like jet-fueled jazz in a weird way…but it’s all based on stories,” says limiteD eDition Lynch. “It’s Modern Music.” label ContaCt: “Steel” Color Sacred Bones Records vinyl lp Those two words seem to efficiently capture both Thought Gang’s essence and 144 N. 7th Street #413 distinctively genre-less genre. Quite often music that finds release beyond its Brooklyn, NY 11211 decade of creation experiences a bit of an aural patina resulting from the process www.sacredbonesrecords.com of marinating in the ether of time. Perplexingly, Thought Gang retains a contem- [email protected] porary quality difficult to quantify. Fittingly, the resulting album somehow still sounds “modern” and will continue to remain “modern,” decades upon decades after is creation. .
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